It is an unbelievable 36 years since the Gothic Society was founded in August 1990. It ran for eight and a half years, ending in December 1998 after 35 magazines and numerous other publications.
I was Managing Editor, and as such I was the one who gave the Society the kiss of death. The days of the small press were drawing to an end with the advent of the internet, and everything was changing, including the newspapers in which we used to run our adverts. Publishing an expensive quarterly magazine was becoming increasingly untenable, and I wanted to do other stuff.
I went off to do said other stuff, having first entombed the Gothic Society’s publications, letters, and ephemera in suitably mould-green boxes. A quarter of a century later, I dug it all up again and started looking at it afresh.
It was like going back to a different era, the world has changed so much. The Gothic Society was resolutely pre-internet, and hitherto it has had only a scattered presence in the digital world where old fans (or less than fans) have revived parts of it.
Now the Gothic Society is venturing into the digital age, via this website and our digital exhibition: ONLINE EXHIBITION
Jennie Mack Gray, January 2026.
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